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Americans Are Unimpressed With ObamaCare

Americans remain unimpressed with the train wreck known as ObamaCare. So far, the number of people completing the cumbersome exchange signup process has not met expectations. It will continue to disappoint its supporters because the product is one that its targeted customers cannot afford and do not want.

Older, sicker people -- the kind of people who need health insurance -- are not signing up as quickly as predicted, but they are signing up at triple the rate for young, healthy people. The numbers may lead to an insurance market death spiral, as insurers raise rates to compensate, leading to even fewer healthy people signing up and rates spiraling ever higher.

Despite the community organizing efforts of the White House and its wholly owned subsidiary Enroll America, enrollment numbers continue to drop month to month.

"I guess what I would say is if you looked at that person's budget, their cable bill, their telephone, their cell phone bill, other things that they're spending on, it may turn out that, it’s just they haven’t prioritized health care because right now everybody's healthy. Nobody actually wants to spend money on health insurance until they get sick. and then once they're sick, the costs of not having health insurance are a lot worse than the costs of having health insurance. I can guarantee you that gentleman who just wrote you that letter-- and I don't know the details of his particular situation and whether he's gotten all the information about subsidies that might be available, but I guarantee you that even at $300 a month if God forbid something happened to him or a family member where they got sick and really needed, let's say, a week's worth of hospitalization, he will wish he had paid that $300 a month.”

The president is laying out a basic economic problem, one of managing risk. The president said, "I don't know the details of his particular situation" as regards the benefits available, but government subsidies are just one tiny part of a person's economic situation. The only one who can be a fair judge of the risks involved is the person to whom they apply.

Barack Obama has been hanging out with the wealthy and powerful so long, he appears not to remember what it's like to struggle.

Approximately 30% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck, with little or no savings. If the car breaks down or a pipe breaks, it means being late on the electric bill and struggling to get back to square one. There literally is no money left at the end of the month. So it does not matter if health insurance is $50 per month or $300 -- it may as well be $3 million, because if the money's not there, the money isn't there.

Even if the money is there, giving it to an insurance company to prepare for a possible medical crisis means the money won't be there for the car repair, burst pipe, or any of the hundred other reasons a person needs a savings account.

All of that points to the basic problem with Obamacare. Forcing everyone to use a strictly defined, tightly controlled form of health insurance to pay for their health care, the law makes the choice for everyone, all at once, when we "don't know the details of his particular situation."

Keep in mind as we've said, all along: if you're offering people a product that makes sense for them to buy, you won't have to work that hard to sell it to them, OK?. It just doesn't make sense for a lot of these young people to spend as much as they're going to have to spend within the exchanges and get insured.

Paternally deciding for everyone that they ought to have health insurance is one thing. Restricting the market to just a particularly expensive kind of insurance is something else. In the end, even if people want health insurance, that doesn't mean they're going to want to buy yours.

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Yes, well put, thank you for your article. 10% of the people I've spoken to are satisfied with their health insurance situation. These are people with Medicare. Although I expect the Medicare landscape to change as well. I think if they rile the seniors though it will be all over for them.

This is great! I wish I had this article on hand recently while arguing with a certain Obama sycophant about the "ACA". Or even when talking to low info, well-meaning Americans who have been beaten into numbness by Obama's drivel.

Most businesses offer a 100% satisfaction guarantee on their goods or services. We have heard about it all time, most of us even taken advantage of this offer from time to time. In light of this, it would be interesting to ask whether the U.S. Chamber of Commerce offers the same level of guarantee to their members that the rest of us get from them. Because if they do, it is about time their members start asking for their money back.

April 15th – Tax Day – is going to be another not-so-fun milestone for hundreds of thousands of ObamaCare’s beneficiaries. The paperwork to comply with the law’s individual mandate is already going to be an annoyance to all who file taxes, but those who receive subsidies to help pay for their health insurance could be in for an especially rude surprise.

When Congress drafted the most sweeping and disruptive set of health care regulations America has ever seen, a multi-thousand page monstrosity that no one even read before voting on, they needed an agency to enforce the dozens of new taxes, mandates, and penalties that were to be an integral part of ObamaCare. But which?

Senator Kay Hagan is trying to prove she can be tough on the president, (although voting with the president’s agenda 92% of the time makes it hard to believe) by issuing a harsh statement about his commitment to and treatment of veterans. Senator Hagan released a statement minutes after it was announced that President Obama was going to speak at the American Legion’s 96th National Convention. The senator states, “I hope to hear the president address these challenges at the American Legion’s National Convention in Charlotte. I will be there to discuss some of the steps I want to see taken in Washington to uphold the commitment our government has made to North Carolina’s veterans.” She goes on to brag she is Member of the Armed Services Committee and that she “comes from a strong military family.”

In 2013, the IRS itself estimated that the average taxpayer would spend 13 hours preparing and filing their taxes. That’s just the basic forms – for those who have different kinds of investment income, or lots of deductions, or who run a small business, the time and money burden grows much higher.

On Thursday, August 7, 32 North Carolina FreedomWorks activists gathered in Greensboro. Over 35 activists from 8 counties enjoyed good food and great conversation while writing letters to Senator Kay Hagan and making protest signs about ObamaCare. Activists then traveled to Senator Hagan's main office in Greensboro to meet with staff and host a protest out front on the busy street.

In the storm of justifiable outrage over the IRS’ targeting of conservatives, the willful obstruction of Lois Lerner, the incompetence/dishonesty of lost emails, and the IRS’ multiple attempts to pass a regulation that would severely limit the ability of non-profits to engage in political speech, it’s easy to forget that this is the same agency that has been tasked with the enforcement of ObamaCare and the tools it has been given to accomplish this insidious mission.

The IRS has been in the news a lot lately, but with all the hubbub of corruption and scandal, it’s easy to forget that they are also the agency in charge of enforcing and implementing the Affordable Care Act, colloquially known as ObamaCare. Here are the top ten reasons why the IRS should keep its hands off your healthcare choices.